Night train route
Intercités de Nuit Paris–Lourdes
Paris → Lourdes · France
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The Pyrenean pilgrim night train: out of Austerlitz every evening on the classic line through Poitiers and Dax, waking beneath the mountains at Lourdes.
How this line was checked
- The 578 km this route shares with OpenStreetMap relation 6317216 is drawn from that relation's own nodes, thinned to within 28 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 99.6% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 7 m); the longest stretch away from it is 3 km
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: SNCF Connect — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
- See for yourself: open this line on the map with OpenStreetMap's own railway drawn underneath it
Questions and answers
How long is the Intercités de Nuit?
The Intercités de Nuit runs 830 km from Paris to Lourdes.
How long does the Intercités de Nuit take?
The fastest scheduled journey is ≈ 10 h 30 min for the 830 km. That is an average of 79 km/h end to end. The line's top service speed is 160 km/h.
Who runs the Intercités de Nuit?
SNCF Voyageurs, with ICN couchettes.
How old is the Intercités de Nuit?
The line has been in service since 1866. That is the year the atlas dates it from: for a modern brand running over an older railway, it is the railway's date, not the brand's.
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